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  khanom kha kai

 

Thailand

Khanom kha kai, literally ‘chicken leg candy’, is a Thai kind of snack that consists of rather hard, orangey coloured, elongated cookies, that are made with bread flour and powdered cream cheese, fried in oil, and have a spicy to salty taste.

 

The name is also used for breadsticks and to distinguish the one from the other, one can either refer to the candy's distinctive colour, i.e. orange and in Thai sih som, or append the term khanom pihb, which alludes to the tin canister called pihb, that is traditionally used to store candy in bulk.

 

  khanom kha kai